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Guide to Modern English History

Guide to Modern English History

Cory, William Johnson

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151109738
ISBN13: 9781151109736
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...Shelley. 137 chapters of the Waverley novels; for want of animal spirits, humour, and vivid memory, he could not make much of old tales; of modern life he had a peasant's knowledge modified by newspapers. No writer with so slender an outfit, toiling so long with so much failure, has ultimately won so much gratitude for the giving of pure pleasure.1 Lord Byron, a poet who in his own lifetime gave sensations not to Englishmen only but to Frenchmen and Germans, carried to the utmost the English foible for hasty and reckless composition. In this he represented, but did not lead, his contemporaries. He was the only man of fashion who loudly proclaimed rebellion against Church and State formalism. As he was not a pattern Englishman, he did not gather round him a company of liberal reformers; but he was able to keep up a running fire against tyranny and hypocrisy, and such an ally must be taken into account. If in domestic affairs he forfeited a right to be heard by discreet senators, yet he aided the liberals who encouraged the Greeks to strive for liberty; and he is. if not the most meritorious, at least the most widely known, of those Britons who have deserved well of foreign nations. Similar to Lord Byron in unmeasured fluency and literary self indulgence was Air. Shelley; in life far less popular, after death more honoured, and perhaps more profitably imitated, he too kicked against the 1 Sir Walter Scott admired the 'Feast of Brougham Oaslle: ' and his choice deserves attention. The characteristic doctrine is in this 'ode ' blended with eloquence; the poet writes swiftly and warmly about the training of nature; 'nature ' here includes human hearts. I38 THE NATION UNITED IN A SENTIMENT. customary restraints of the English gentry, and contributed not a little t...

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